an anecdote            
                                          
 today it  rained, and i would go outside 
 i thought, so i  smoked a  pipe  and got 
 dressed,   and   outside  the  rain  had 
 turned  into snow  so thick  that it was 
 as dense fog ... and  then i went to get 
 the mail,  but there was  a woman and we 
 talked a little. now because i  was high 
 and it was  snowing so  funny  and i had 
 an umbrella against the snow,  but  snow 
 all over my  face anyway, and i wondered 
         about myself, and my life